Top 67 Quotes About Difficult Tasks
#1. Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.
Carroll Quigley
#2. Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today's work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. As it may be - matters. How you feel about your abilities - your academic "self-concept" - in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#4. A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
Dan Millman
#5. Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
Og Mandino
#6. One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts ... to my surprise ... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#7. One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Karl Marx
#8. The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them ...
Terry Pratchett
#9. When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
Seth Godin
#10. We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.
Dick Durbin
#11. I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.
Johanna Siguroardottir
#12. Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead
Denise Austin
#13. One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.
Andy Stanley
#14. Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush
#15. People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
Albert Bandura
#16. One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
C. G. Jung
#17. I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#18. People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks
Albert Bandura
#19. Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.
Laozi
#20. The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#21. Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
James Dyson
#22. To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
Theophile Gautier
#23. I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
Og Mandino
#24. Americans will not and should not respond to a political creed that cherishes the past solely because it offers an excuse for shutting out the hard facts and difficult tasks of the present.
Nelson Rockefeller
#25. Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts
#26. The virtue of obedience makes the will supple ... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
John Vianney
#27. We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time
Sunday Adelaja
#28. The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.
Maria Montessori
#29. Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.
George Pattison
#30. We classify things as easy or difficult, but this is not right, tasks should be classified as possible or impossible and the possible ones can be easy or hard
Hatem A. Aly
#31. It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
Paulo Coelho
#33. The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
Simon Winchester
#34. The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.
Phillis Wheatley
#35. It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
Plutarch
#36. The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
John Boehner
#37. It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#38. APM focuses on team management, from building self-organizing teams to developing a servant leadership style. It is both more difficult, and ultimately more rewarding than managing tasks.
Jim Highsmith
#39. It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.
Jeremy Collier
#40. We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Woodrow Wilson
#41. Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#42. As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.
Olivia Goldsmith
#43. Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn't particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
Seth Godin
#44. The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new ... is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.
Eric Hoffer
#45. The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle.
#46. To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
Rene Dubos
#47. And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
William Wordsworth
#49. Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#50. Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
Damon Galgut
#51. A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#52. If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Brian Tracy
#53. I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.
Mark Twain
#54. This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
Christiana Figueres
#55. There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.
Bruce Barnbaum
#56. The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
Max McKeown
#57. It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi ... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people ... This is a people's task.
Narendra Modi
#58. Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.
Narendra Modi
#59. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#60. People do not trust the slick and polished. Instead, the objectives of media training should be to learn how to directly address difficult questions, how to avoid falling into media traps, and most importantly, how to accomplish the two previous tasks with honesty and integrity.
Jeff Ansell
#61. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#62. Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene V. Debs
#63. My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#64. To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.
Thomas Willis
#65. Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.
Travis Bradberry
#66. Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian
#67. We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
difficult task.
Harry S. Truman
